The Hello World Jam

Hello, World!

Our team (Almera, Nirabhra, and Mike) wants to make a collaborative game that schools around the world can play by saying hello to each other. We suspect this might help world peace happen sooner, but we are only creative media developers so it is difficult to say for certain.

Game format

The game starts with one school playing.

Every two weeks, each school playing gets to send one hello.

Hellos can only be sent to other schools (definition of "school" TBD).

A school joins the game by receiving a hello from a school already in the game.

Schools can join a waiting list to express interest in joining the game.

School Hello World website

Participating schools open a free school admin account on the Hello World Game mobile-friendly website. This admin can create additional delegate accounts. All interactions between the game and the school are through the admin or delegate accounts -- information about individual students is never collected by the game platform.

Saying hello

To send a hello, a school admin or delegate will log into the portal and fill out a questionnaire, describing the selection in detail, such as:

1. What schools were considered.
2. Which school was chosen to receive the hello.
3. How many staff and how many students were involved in the decision.
4. How was the decision arrived at, and over what span of time?
5. Were there objections to the decision, and what were they?

No individual student information will be permitted in the submission.

Game interface

The game's public-facing interface will be a mobile-friendly, accessible website which will include an interactive map or globe showing all the hello's being sent.

Researchers may find the telemetry of schools saying hello to each other useful for study. We are not researchers so cannot say what researchers will get up to with this sort of thing.